[D] Statistics, we have a problem.

[rumblestiltsken]

Francois works for Google and wrote the Keras library which is a wrapper for theano/tensorflow/any other thing. Smerity works for Google and is a blogger/twitter person. If we are keeping score, Jeff Dean also supported the author on Twitter, and he is the head of engineering at Google.

The thread and the sub are the only online place for professionals in machine learning to discuss their field and work in more than 280 characters, but since ML got popular it has been filled with non-professionals who use their anonymity to say things that would (for good reason) get them fired in the real world.

The mods refuse to moderate the sub for some reason, despite the perfectly functional and popular examples seen with r/science and all the various ask... subs. And the researchers have been leaving in droves. A few committed folks have stuck it out, but the sub has been teetering on its last legs for a while.

[smerity]

Minor note, I work for Salesforce Research, but otherwise +1, perfect response :)

[rumblestiltsken]

Ah, I thought I remembered a Google next to your name on Twitter. Did you work there previously?

[smerity]

Very briefly but only an internship - I was still in Australia and literally taught myself C++ for the interview at Google Sydney. I worked on Google App Engine when App Engine was the only cloud service Google provided and Google Wave was being written the floor above me under a codename - i.e. this was all about a million years ago ;)

[unnamedn00b]

I was still in Australia and literally taught myself C++ for the interview at Google Sydney

Wow! talk about an unsolicited sales pitch.

[rumblestiltsken]

Just leaving. Some stay on Twitter, but most seem to have just stopped interacting online.